"I wouldn't have written poetry if other poetry hadn't been written."Īspiring poets, he said, should "read, find someone who makes you jealous." Regarding what inspires him to write, he said, "My big muse is jealousy." Seeing someone else's poem that you admire goads you try to do better, he said. That's why literature is better than television." "Television is happy content and happy form, so there's no tension. It's the tension between miserable content and happy form." "The content of literature is generally miserable, but the reason we read it is that the form of literature gives us pleasure. It's not embarrassing, he said, because "poetry has form, which makes it pleasing to the reader." "Poetry is a way of keeping in touch with your secret emotional life without embarrassment," he told the students at the college's Tucker Hall.
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